Trump doesn't only want to end DEI. He's also voiding a Civil Rights-era anti-discrimination rule.
President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees.
DOJ Halts All Civil Rights Cases Following Trump’s Directives
Trump “is quickly implementing Project 2025 and is targeting all minorities,” said researcher Allison Chapman.
Trump’s new Justice Department leadership orders a freeze on civil rights cases
The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration.
States, civil rights groups sue to stop Trump’s birthright citizenship order
Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.
Trump inaugurated on MLK Day: How should civil rights be advanced in this new era?
For many people, Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of the civil rights icon.
Trump's diversity rollback sparks civil rights outcry
National Urban League president Marc H. Morial on Wednesday called President Trump's executive order dismantling federal diversity and affirmative action practices "an assault on the Civil Rights Movement and everything we've achieved in the last 60 years.
Trump Rolls Back DEI Efforts in Government, Civil Rights-Era Protections
President Donald Trump ramped up his attack on federal DEI efforts Tuesday, dismantling DEI offices and rolling back decades-old protections put in place during the Civil Rights Movement.
Amid concerns over Trump's DEI executive order, Michigan civil rights attorney says workers have other protections
On Tuesday, President Trump signed a series of executive orders eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) government programs. A memo went out to federal agencies placing all DEI office staffers on paid leave immediately.
Trump’s not just going after modern DEI—he just overturned an LBJ-era order safeguarding federal workers from discrimination
Good morning! REI gets a new CEO, Apple faces a gender discrimination lawsuit, and Trump's anti-DEI spree extends far beyond modern-era hiring rules. Have a terrific Thursday! - Blast from the past. President Donald Trump's plan to dismantle diversity,
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Did Trump kill ‘Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965’? Here’s why that claim caused confusion
Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...
Trump Revokes Workplace Discrimination Rules Enacted By LBJ In 1965
The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights ...
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‘Civil Rights Canon in American Law’: Trump Rescinds Historic LBJ Nondiscrimination Order
With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that overturned government ...
Trump Federal Contracting Order Reverses 60 Years of Anti-Discrimination Progress
As part of Trump's onslaught on longstanding federal policies, his action affecting government contracting cancels an order signed by LBJ that was integral to the civil rights movement of the 1960s ...
How Trump decided to kick off his second term with blanket Jan. 6 pardon
Some recipients of pardons related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol are exploring lawsuits alleging civil rights ...
Resistance movement kick-started over Trump’s birthright citizenship order
A resistance coalition is meeting the Trump White House head-on over his executive order to end birthright citizenship.
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Is Trump Using Project 2025 to Eliminate FEMA?
President Donald Trump, who made baseless attacks against FEMA during his 2024 campaign, suggested on Wednesday night that he ...